Wheel guard or shoe.



No. 635,92l. Patented Oct. 3|, 1899. F. DIVELBISS. WHEELGUARD 0R SHOE.

(Application filed June 1, 1899 (No Model.)

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FRED DIVELBISS, OF STARFIELD, MISSOURI.

WHEEL GUARD OR SHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 635,921, dated October31, 1899.

I Application filed Tune 1, 1899.

To 00 whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRED DIvELpIss, a citizen of the United States,residing at Starfield, in the county of Clinton and State of Missouri,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wheel-Guard Shoes;and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in wheel guards for the carrying orground wheels of mowers, reapers, and harvesters, and more particularlyto that class of analogous attachments of which the device shown in theLetters Patent to Jones and Marshall, No. 365,749, dated-June 28,1887,may be taken as a type; and the object is to simplify and improve theconstruction and increase the utility and durability of the device.

To this end the invention consists in certain features of constructionand combination of parts, which will be hereinafter more particularlydescribed and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings the same reference characters indicate thesame parts of the invention.

Figure lis a perspective view,partly in section, of my improvedwheel-guard shoe. Fig. 2 is a perspective View of the shoe removed fromthe machine.

1 denotes the frame, and 2 the bull or traction wheel.

3 represents the guard-shoe, which consists of a sheet-metal platesupported by the braces 4L 4, parallel with the frame. This plate ispreferably of sheet or steel plate, and it extends on both sides of thewheel and across the front, as shown, the front portion being turnedupwardly runner fashion, and the Serial No. 718,956. (No model.)

rear ends are also slightly flared to permit of the wheel being backed.

The lower end portion of the wheel extends a short distance below theshoe, so that in traveling on hard ground the guard-shoe is carriedalong a short distance above and parallel with the surface of theground. In soft ground as the wheel sinks acertain distance the broadflat surface of the shoe rides upon the ground and supports the weightof the machine, thus enabling it to pass over boggy places until solidground'is reached.

The accompanying drawings show my invention in the best form now knownto me; but many changes in the details might be made within the skill ofa good mechanic with-- out departing from the spirit of my invention asset forth in the claim at the end of this specification.

Having thus fully described my invention, What I claim, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

In a machine of the class described, the combination with thehorizontal, rectangular frame 1, the ground-wheel 2 mounted within saidframe, of the guard-shoe 3 arranged par- ,allel with said frame and openat its rear end, and having. its free ends projecting beyond the rearend of said frame to form a guard therefor, substantially as and for thepurpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

hi FRED DIVELBISS.

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Witnesses:

B. F. VAUGHN, GEORGE LONG.

